Dimitri’s POV

We stayed like that for a long time, the silence between us comforting in its own way. But even as I held Kate, the weight of what I had done pressed down on me. I had ended a life, one that had once meant something to me, even if it was only in a fleeting, superficial way.

It was morning, the first rays of dawn filtered through the windows, and so did slightly warm air, I held Kate in my arms, her body making me even warmer, it felt good to just lie there with her without a care in the world, to ignore the world but there...